It can silently buzz when you get a new email and show a preview of your email. It has an API that works with many Android and Blackberry phones, so you can program your own custom apps to do things like move forward in a PowerPoint presentation or show stock quotes.

His post got more than 200 likes on Google+, and got a lot of traction on sites like Hacker News as well.

The watch works with some Android phones, Blackberry OS 5, 6, and 7phones, and the Google Nexus One.